Lolo Jones wants to inspire you with her new book “Over It”

Lolo Jones shares her struggles to become a three-time Olympian in her new book “Over It.”

Lolo Jones has never had or taken the easy road. Growing up in Iowa, the simple things that most children have — like a working family car — was not part of her experience. Jones often times was walking to the grocery store to get food with her family.

“My Dad could only afford cheap cars,” Jones explained to FanSided. “We would be stuck on the other side of town and we would have to run from the car back home because we lived in Iowa where it is really cold. But that is where I learned to run because he would be like breathe through your nose and out through your mouth.”

Turning a negative into a positive has become a regular Jones mantra. Clipping a hurdle in front of millions, but eventually getting back up and becoming a three-time olympian is the beauty that is Jones and her determination.

Jones is hoping you will be inspired by her new book “Over It: How To Face Life’s Hurdles with Grit, Hustle, and Grace” where she attempts to be in the daily fight with you. She does not have everything in life figured out and wants you to know it. The struggle is real.

"“I love reading books for inspiration, but what I found is a lot of the books are on the other side,” Jones said. “If an olympic champion wrote the book I did this and that is how I won the olympic medal, or I did this at that is how I got married. Well where is the book about the people that are still in the fight and they don’t know if it is going to work out for them? They keep getting into failure after failure and they are trying to make sense of what to do. Thats really in essence why I wrote the book for the people that feel hopeless or they feel like they are a failure or they feel like they are close to a dream but so close they can’t get it.”"

Keep going. Jones wants you to and she takes you on her journey from being taught along with her siblings a certain skill as a youngster by her Dad who was in and out of prison to the Olympics. Spoiler alert, Jones learned quickly.

“They will get some laughs for sure when they read about my Dad teaching me how to shop lift,” Jones said. “If they get anything from my book it’s to be inspired because I have taken a lot of L’s throughout my career and I shouldn’t be a three-time olympic athlete at all.”

In addition to writing a book and being on TV during the Olympics, Jones continues to surprise herself and her fans with new ventures.

“I never thought I would Tik Tok either before the pandemic hit,” Jones said. “I was like that is for kids and I am an older millennial and I am never going to have a Tik Tok and then Covid hits and I’m Tik Tok dancing away.”

Dancing the night away on social media as she celebrates her journey and encourages you to do the same feels just about right when it comes to Lolo Jones.